It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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